The Electoral Commission (EC) has announced plans to re-run the 2024 election in three outstanding polling stations in the Dome Kwabenya constituency.
The decision comes after confusion erupted on Saturday, December 28, 2024, during the re-collation of parliamentary results after weeks of dispute.
The EC’s Director of Training, Dr Serebour Quaicoe announced the development.
“The report from the returning officers was that they have concluded collating 367 polling station results. They were left with three of the results, and the three results were brought later.
“The Commission rejected one of them outrightly on the stance that it was declared on a wrong statement of poll because they used training sheets, which is not the one that they should use. So the commission has rejected one, so we decided to come and add the two and see what happens,” he explained.
Dr. Quaicoe indicated that after adding the two results, the difference between the two leading candidates; the NPP’s Mike Ocquaye Jnr and the NDC’s Faustina Elikplim Akurugu was 165 votes.
The rejected result had a total of 669 voters, meaning that if all those votes were given to the second candidate, they would overtake the first candidate.
This necessitated a rerun at the polling station.
“The polling station’s name is Abokobi Women’s Development Centre 2. We are sending our report to the commission, and then the commission will take the decision on when it should be done, but we are assured that it will be done before they are inaugurated,” Dr. Quaicoe stated.
The rerun is expected to provide clarity and finality to the contested results, ensuring a fair and transparent electoral process.
